In December 2012, halfwheel broke the news of the cigar that would become the sixth installment in Smoke Inn’s Microblend Series, the Room101 Big Delicious. The “bastard child” of a cigar came with a dedicated website that featured a 16–episode comic strip as part of the lead up to the cigar’s debut at a VIP dinner during the 2013 Great Smoke and its public launch on April 26. The name comes from Matt Booth’s, owner of Room101, nickname for Abe Dababneh, the owner of Smoke Inn. Big Delicious was limited to just 750 boxes of 15 cigars for a total of 11,250 cigars. The blend, which features an impressive number of fillers, is based off the Room101 OSOK, the cigar that introduced the cigar world to noted photographer Edgar Hoill. Here’s what I said about the Room101 Big Delicious when I reviewed it in April 2013: I’m quick to pick on the names that cigars are given, especially ones so upfront as Big Delicious. The big part is pretty easy to agree on – this cigar is sizable and will engage you for nearly three hours if you let it. The delicious part is more subjective, but for my palate hit on a lot of the right ...
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